[Gllug] SFTP Server
Tethys
tet at accucard.com
Wed Apr 9 12:21:19 UTC 2003
Doug Winter writes:
>Personally I'd say that this doesn't increase security by much in the
>real world. Yes, someone could be sniffing your network, but in reality
>they aren't. Although it's a plausible risk, it's not a high one.
Agreed. It's much less of an issue in today's world of switched networks
than it was back when ssh was written (when almost everyone just used
hubs).
>Stupid admins are the real risk, and I wouldn't be surprised if
>there were machines out there with remote root login using rhost
>authentication :)
Oh there are. I've worked in places that did that, and it wouldn't
surpise me at all if they still do...
Tet
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